Faced with COVID-19 crisis, central banks have once again become one of the key players in the economies. The aim of this article is to analyse the actions of Central and Eastern European central banks within all their roles (monetary policy, micro-and macroprudential policy, deposit...

The study sought to examine the effect interest rate risks on banking sector stability through disentangling the effect of interest rate risk on both fiscal and banking sector stability conditions in Kenya. We applied annual macroeconomic and bank-level data for the period 2001 - 2022 across 37...

After the global financial crisis, it was observed that price stability alone would not ensure financial stability. The new paradigm indeed insists on the inclusion of financial stability as an additional macroeconomic objective. In this context, it is essential to understand how exactly is the...

The Fed's policy rule switches during the different phases of the business cycle. This finding is established using a dynamic mixture model to estimate regime-dependent Taylor-type rules on US quarterly data from 1960 to 2021. Instead of exogenously partitioning the data based on tenures of the...

This study examines the transmission of monetary policy in the eurozone from 2005 to 2021. The novelty of this research lies in defining the European Central Bank's monetary policy through three dimensions extracted via principal component analysis. These components, examined across various...

Although theories on channels of monetary policy transmission emphasize indirect monetary policy effect on inflation and output, empirical literature is surprisingly rooted in a direct approach. The use of variants of vector autoregression, with theoretical ordering of variables, does not only...

We investigate the heterogeneity in the effects of monetary policy shocks on the distribution of wages and hours worked, using unique contract-level data from the Czech labor market and identifying monetary policy shocks using a narrative approach based on market suprises in interest rate...

This paper investigates the underlying dynamic relationships between monetary policy, bank lending, and inflation during the post-pandemic recovery era in the East African Community. To achieve this, I analysed monthly macroeconomic data on central bank rates, consumer price index, lending...

This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 pandemic and monetary policy measures adopted by the European Central Bank (ECB) on the sovereign risk for the European Monetary Union (EMU) countries for the period between March-2020 and November-2020 using daily data. The impact of Covid-19 and...